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I'm going on a 10-day trip to Italy with some friends in August and looking for recommendations on books to bring along! Both travel days there and back are going to be pretty long so length of book doesn't matter. All genres accepted. Just looking for something thought-provoking to read on the heinously long plane and train rides to and from the airports, or maybe something to read while on the beach. Perhaps this can serve as a resource for other people also looking for books to read on a flight!

Personally, I just finished the Da Vinci Code. If you don't mind a 500 page fanfiction of Indiana Jones and Dan Brown's unfiltered thoughts on theology, it's very enjoyable. The puzzles and twists are interesting, but if you're super into the 'CHRISTIANS AND CATHOLICS NEVER DO A SINGLE THING WRONG' mindset, I wouldn't recommend. 

Funnily enough I have my mom's hardcover copy of the Da Vinci Code on my shelf right now. Unfortunately, I won't be able to pack it in a suitcase to bring with me, but this made me pick it up again! I'll try to read it before I go. I've heard great things about it.

I think you'd really like The Hyperion Cantos. Read the first book, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, and tell me how it was :)

Will you look at that, another place to recommend Watership Down.

And also Kim by Rudyard Kipling, and Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

I'm just gonna show how uncool I am and recommend what I read on my last long flight: The Martian by Andy Weir. It's fun. I'm sure you've probably read it, but if not, I guarantee you will finish before you even land.

That's a good book.

What books do you like generally?